HeyDesigner - Ordinary design

Hi Reader, these are my design and frontend picks this week.

Highlights of the week

Disco Conf 2022: A journey into discovery, design, and research - Join a two-day, global, virtual conference focusing on the intersection of design, research and product. - Maze  Sponsored

Why ordinary design (almost) always wins - When we think about ordinary design, the first words that come to mind are "simple" and "boring". - Nick Babich / filed under Product Design

Space, grids, and layouts - Designers make spatial decisions every day from the height of a button to the space around an icon. - Elliot Dahl / filed under Design System

Product design

Facelift, refresh, redesign - A guide to choosing a strategy for paying off design debt. - Alicja Suska / filed under Product Design

Product intuition calibration - You notice how some people you work with have a very astute and mostly correct intuition about a variety of user scenarios, behaviours and product performance? - Hardik Pandya / filed under Product Design

Tools and resources

Motionity - A web-based, open source motion graphics editor for everyone. - Alyssa X / filed under Motion Design

Figma plugin: Leading trim - Trim your text elements, removing space above capital letters and below the baseline. - Mark Dalgleish / filed under Typography

Design engineering

Creative list styling - A look at some useful and creative ways to style a list. - Michelle Barker / filed under HTML & CSS

On design system support - We listen to developers, we understand their concerns, and when they need help, we take care of them. - Alan B Smith / filed under Design System

Inspiration and creativity

Cool things people do with their blogs - Small and independent blogs are always full of surprises. - Wouter Groeneveld / filed under Inspiration

Last but not least

MVP: The most misused term in tech - The problem with the term MVP today is that it's used as a cop out. The temptation is to throw out the minimal product that you can ship. - Aakash Gupta / filed under Product Management

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— Tamas

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